Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-06-02

every just measure to open their way to com
fort, wealth, and to all the advanced positions
in public and private life There
are some things that laws can not do. They
can not regulate the price of labor or any
thing else. This can only be done by the law
of supply and demand. American laborers
do not desire such legislation They only
want the free and ready meaass Of contesting
with capital for fair division of the results
of production We have no room in this
country for Anarchists, Communists, or So
cialists-the worst productions of despotic
governments
Referring to the appointment of ex-Con-
federates to office the speaker said tins had
gone so far that in foreign countries it was "A
mooted question as TO which principle had
conquered during the war, and he added;
1.-The president has not been free from fault
i'll this respect. In his recent 9etter to the
committee inviting him to attend the unveil-
ing of the Calhoun monument he says he be
lieves it would be well if all Calhoun thought,
and all he believed, and all his aspirations
were better known and understood What
would Andrew jackson have said to such a
sentiment as this if uttered in his presence in
the name of the Democratic partyf"
Civil service reform was alluded to, the
speaker saying the law did not bother the
president much in turning out Republicans,
and the turning out process had been pushed
along so lively that NOW it is claimed that
under the demands of our Democratic friends,
hungry and thirsty after long fast, more than
four -fiftlrs of Republican officers not embraced
in the civil service law have been changed by
the president When the senate politely
asked for the cause of the removal, he said,
as Jack Falstaif did, He would not tell upon
compulsion'"
During the early part of his speech the
senator referred to Stephen A. Douglas as
man who would have done as Logan did
left the Democracy-and he said, referring Ia
the statues of Lincoln and Douglas in the cap
itol, that Logan's should be added that the
three constituted the great triumvirate of IL
linois
He concluded with comprehensive and
eloquent description of the objects of the Re
publican party, and said: at will again APP
peal to the suffrages of thepeople, asking only
an honest vote and fair count, and re
ferring to its record in the past as the hest
evidence it can give that it will maintain
abroad, develop the resources OF our people at
home, and secure ALL 50 far AS it can in the
full and equal enjoyment OF the rights and
privileges of American citizens"
The speech was to have been delivered in
the open air in front of the capitol, but rain
prevented this, and the meeting was held in
the assembly chamber Governor Oglesby
presided, ard closed the proceedings with IA
short speech
Upon and around the speakers stand wert
grouped the following gentlemen: Speaker
Calhoun, Joseph Fifer, Clark E Carr, Gen
John |. Rinaker, Congressman Cannon, Lieu
tenant Governor Smith, james A. Sexton
Daniel Ray, S, Fl. Jones, John W. Bum,
Maj. Bluford Wilson, Thomas Ridgeway and
Gen. Green f. Raum
The public reception at the Leland hotel at
night was very largely attended. About 7h.
people shook the Ohio Statesman's hand and
the levee was continued until 10 O'Clock Mr.
Sherman left later for Chicago